On this 3rd Sunday of Lent, together with Moses we encounter the extraordinary sight of the burning bush. As Tony explains, the burning bush holds a threefold significance for us, all of which ultimately point to the fact that as human creatures we become who we have been created to be when set ablaze with the fire of God’s Love.
Mass Readings:
Reading 1: Exodus 3:1-8a, 13-15
Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11
Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12
Gospel: Luke 13:1-9
Endnotes:
St. John of Damascus, On the Orthodox Faith, 3.24; Catechism of the Catholic Church, 2559; The New St. Joseph Baltimore Catechism, 475.
Origen, Commentary on the Gospel of John, 1.8.
St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses, 2.20.
Mark 9:3.
St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses, 2.25.
St. Gregory of Nyssa, The Life of Moses, 2.21.
Luke 1:35a.
Tony Crescio is the founder of FRESHImage Ministries. He holds an MTS from the University of Notre Dame and is currently a PhD candidate in Christian Theology at Saint Louis University. His research focuses on the intersection between moral and sacramental theology. His dissertation is entitled, Presencing the Divine: Augustine, the Eucharist and the Ethics of Exemplarity.
Tony’s academic publications can be found here.